Trainee Marketing Assistant

Scot JCB Group have an opportunity for a Trainee Marketing Assistant to join our growing team in Glasgow, initially on a 1-year fixed term contract with the potential of developing into a permanent role. This role would suit a confident and outgoing graduate or school leaver looking to kick start their marketing career in an established business.

Working alongside the marketing manager and marketing executive, the successful candidate will support the team with social media, campaigns, events, content creation, web analytics, employee uniforms, branding, internal/external comms and more.

Hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm, based at our Glasgow Head Office

Salary: Between 18-22k, dependant on experience

Who are we?

The Scot JCB Group is made up of Scot JCB, Scot Agri, SPS and SIA.

Scot JCB has been supplying and servicing JCB machinery throughout Scotland and the North of England for over 60 years. We sold our first machine in 1956 and have grown into a highly specialised machinery distribution company operating through a network of 17 depots from Fraserburgh in the North East of Scotland to Carnforth in Lancashire. Scot JCB is the largest JCB distributor in the UK and we pride ourselves on providing our customers with world class service.

This role involves:

• Providing administrative support to the marketing team
• Monitoring and logging all merchandise and employee uniform requests
• Day to day management of employee uniform supplies
• Tracking and checking sales leads from our website and JCB
• Collating and analysing information from customer surveys
• Managing the marketing email inbox and escalating as appropriate
• Content creation for social media and internal comms
• Supporting off-site events such as The Royal Highland Show and ScotPlant
• Maintenance of our CRM system

The successful candidate will have:

• Marketing experience or a relevant qualification (advantageous but not essential)
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft applications
• Strong attention to detail and organisational skills
• The ability to prioritise tasks and work under their own initiative
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• An interest in learning about the construction and agriculture industries

In return you will receive:

• Training with our external digital agency and other opportunities for development
• A competitive salary, reviewed yearly
• Free on-site parking
• 30 days annual leave
• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Employee Assistance Programme - free counselling and legal advice
• Access to high street discounts and savings through Perks
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance of three times your annual salary
• Employee referral programme

Please note we do not accept agency cv's from those not on our PSL. Our PSL is currently closed.